World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Why Are We Waiting?

On their rounds of
London last week, visiting U.S. Army chiefs sought out
a very lean, very tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Englishman with a graceful name, royal blood, and one of the key
posts in warring Britain. If, as some people thought, the U.S. officers
were in London to sell the Imperial General Staff a second front, they
did well to look up Vice Admiral, Lieut. General and Air Vice Marshal
Lord Louis Mountbatten.

For, to Britons a-clamor for Continental
action, Lord Louis personifies the second front. They know him as the...